4.08.2007

My Punk Rock Gift Exchange secret pal sent me three skeins of this beautiful Sirdar cotton Indigo denim. It has a gorgeous sheen to it and is extremely soft and silky. I decided to try making a decorative tea towel using the Cascading Leaves pattern in Debbie Bliss' How to Knit.

I found the Lace Edging pattern in the book as well. It's just a 16-row repeat where you cast on 5 stitches, add one stitch every row, then bind off 8 at the end and start over (so it's sort of knit on the diagonal).

I can't wait to see how this looks after it's washed. It should fade like jeans!

As you know, I'm having a love affair with Peaches'n'Creme. I still can't stop with the warshrags. The one on the left is a pattern called Flying Geese that I really like. It reminds me a little of a quilt.

I've finished knitting both halves of the Tsuki silk/mohair shrug. I just need to seam them together. So far it looks like it'll fit; I'm just a little nervous about the seaming bit. And the blocking bit. But just in time, the new KnitPicks catalogue has directions for blocking lace...

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"One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it--it was the black kitten's fault entirely." (L. Carroll, Through the Looking Glass)
I'm Yankee-Born and Southern-Raised, which makes me kind of Southern Gothic (in the old literary sense of the word). After 15 years in the Big Apple, I spent 4 years on a farm in Michigan raising chickens and llamas and learning to spin, knit, and needle-felt. Now I'm back home in NYC with my much-beloved spouse and one crazy tortiseshell cat. You can also find me on Ravelry.com as okitten.